Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anton Joseph Cermak, Democratic Mayor of Chicago, called at the White House. Because he had no appointment he did not see President Hoover. A caller who did see the President was Roland Robinson, 24, youngest member of the British House of Commons...
...Robinson Crusoe (United Artists) bouncing Douglas Fairbanks Sr. cheerfully burlesques Daniel Defoe's old story. He does it by his familiar formula of expansio ad absurdum, inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes close to a tropic island and he bets his friend (William Farnum) that he is competent to mold jungle into civilization with only bare hands and one toothbrush. The friend takes the bet; Fairbanks jumps overboard; his dog follows; Fairbanks throws back the toothbrush. Audiences chuckle as he staggers...
Douglas Fairbanks, 49, leaps and handstands less in Mr. Robinson Crusoe than in his famed earlier pictures, The Mark of Zorro, Three Musketeers, Robin Hood, Thief of Bagdad, Black Pirate, Iron Mask...
Tiger Shark (Warner Bros.) is a bloody cinema of tuna fishing in trawlers out of Southern California's San Diego. Edward G. Robinson is a Portuguese captain who saves Richard Arlen from the sharks, loses a hand to them, is married by Zita Johann for gratitude, not for love. When he finds that Arlen, his best friend, is in love with his wife, he bashes him with his hooked stump and throws him to the sharks, himself falls to them and dies of the attentions of a shark that crawls up his back as he is pulled back into...
...Wednesday's cut. R. M. Gummere '34, William Wemple '34, A. M. Moskin '33, and T. F. Waters '33 are the other insignia bearers. The team is further bolstered by G. F. Stork '35 and E. B. Robbins '35, of last year's outstanding Freshman team. H. B. B. Robinson '34, and R. H. Eaton '34 are showing up well...